The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, ...

Japan is experiencing a surge in elderly female prisoners, with the number of prisoners aged 65 or older nearly quadrupling from 2003 to 2022. This rise comes as elderly women seek companionship and ...

Japan's largest women’s prison, Tochigi Women’s Prison, houses a growing number of elderly inmates, reflecting the country’s ...

The first group of Palestinian prisoner releases in the occupied West Bank was made up of 69 women and 21 children ...

The rising level of loneliness among Japan’s ageing population is pushing some elderly women to view life in prison as a ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences ...

The first hostages freed from Gaza under a long-awaited ceasefire agreement are back in Israel, and desperately needed aid is ...

Cheryl Thomas, women’s services manager ... a separated housing unit that would allow inmates who give birth while in custody, and others who qualify, to care for their newborns up to 18 months old ...

Prisons across the country are struggling to find nursing home placements for sick prisoners after granting them parole. In ...

Authorities say they have traced seven homicides — two in a California prison, five on the streets of Los Angeles County — to ...

YORK, Neb. (KOLN) - Several inmates at the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women in York had to be temporarily relocated after a pipe burst in the facility. On Jan. 9, a pipe in the fire ...

A former prison ... 13 women, but the jury acquitted him in four of those cases. Advocates for the victims praised the verdicts, while also calling for changes to protect female inmates against ...